Great Couples Counseling in Norcross, GA. Therapy to heal relationships.

Couples counseling can help people make more thoughtful decisions about how to navigate a relationship in a healthy way. Each partner must know who they are and what they bring to a relationship, what the roles and rules (interaction patterns) are that they grew up with, and how each partner's history influences how they relate or want to relate (interaction patterns again) as adults. What we have the most power over in a relationship is ourselves and what we contribute to it.

A happy and fulfilled partner relationship is a complex matter. Even if it is not dealing with any significant problems, routine, and boredom can lead to new problems. Who can benefit from couples counseling? - Loving couples wanting to improve their relationship. - Dissatisfied couples wanting to improve their relationship. - Engaged couples looking for insight into healthy relationships. - Couples considering separation or divorce.

Are you and your significant other at a place in your relationship where you are feeling stuck and unable to move forward? Come work through your differences in a place that assists in opening the lines of communication and coaches you through healthy ways of resolving conflict. With your dedication, flexibility, and hard work, your relationship can become what you've always hoped that it would be. Together we can work on the outward areas of your relationship and your friendship, as well as the intimate and private areas of your relationship allowing you to enjoy all aspects of a good and healthy relationship.

If you are feeling stuck in the conflict and disconnection of your relationship, I want to offer understanding and guidance to help you explore your emotions and know how your reactions affect one another. We will build your empathy for one another and foster deeper intimacy by talking through your feelings and their origins in your past. As a counselor who has received advanced training in emotionally focused couples therapy, I can help you identify your unhealthy cycle and grow your ability to focus on your feelings and express love to each other in the tender places of your hearts.

• Are you frustrated in your current relationship? • Do you and your partner seem to have the same arguments over and over again? • Has your partner told you things aren’t going well? Pay attention! Don’t dismiss their complaints. Learn how to: • Rebuild Trust • Respect one another • Have fondness and admiration • Give benefit of the doubt • Value one another • Consider one another’s perspectives and feelings • Create shared meaning • Compromise • Restore romance Kathleen is a Certified Gottman Couples Therapist. She guides couples through a journey of rediscovery so that they build a stronger marriage and a stronger friendship.

I work with couples who are struggling with their relationship or those who want to strengthen what they already have. Some of the things I help couples with are: developing better communication skills, resolving parenting issues, working thru past resentments, coping with addictions, and better understanding their partners needs so they can have a more empathetic loving relationship. Many couples want more from their relationship but are afraid to start therapy. I help couples discover what they need from their relationship and show them how to get it.

Everyone enters into relationships and marriage with their own set of ideas and their own ways of handling stress and difficulties. Many times the skills we learned as children to handle difficult situations and relational conflict are the same skills that we are trying to manage with as adults. Changing the way one reacts to stress in relationships and enhancing communication skills are key in developing healthy marriages and couple relationships.

Underwood Counseling & Consultation, PLLC welcomes couples who desire to improve their partnership. Couples therapy can involve partnerships, pre-marital, marriage, relationship dissolution, divorce, or coparenting, to name a few. Our goal is to help couples navigate towards healthy role definitions, communication, collaborative problem solving, parenting alignment, intimacy, & expressions of vulnerability. We are trained in the use of Gottman therapy & IMAGO relationship therapy. We look forward to being a part of your journey.

I help couples looking to create the relationship they desire. Together, we'll go through a process using Gottman principles to explore unhealthy patterns, communication styles, past traumas, and intimacy. Couples experience rough patches, my goal is to help couples come out on the other side of the rough patch stronger and more in sync than ever before.

No safer place. No better time. God created us for relationship. The more intimate the relationship, the more work it takes to keep it healthy. I can help you work through the inevitable challenges that arise utilizing therapy techniques designed to strengthen communication and listening skills, which is often the root issue. I am a certified administrator of the well-respected Prepare-Enrich couples assessment tool, which can be used for couples who are seriously dating or have been married for a long while. Once communication is strengthened, the couple can better work through the issues they may have together.

Couples are as unique as the individuals in the relationship. However, most couples go through similar cycles in their lives together, and have difficulty with communication and managing conflict. Some couples tend to avoid difficult discussions, and may simply sweep controversial topics aside. Other couples interact with anger, hostility and even aggression. Both of these types are negative and prevent you and your partner from having a fun, fulfilling, committed relationship. I will provide assessment for your relationship, and then teach you both skills to use to improve your communication and conflict resolution. Most couples can improve their relationship in 6-10 sessions.

I enjoy helping couples stay married when at all possible. Relationships take self-awareness, compromise and a shared vision. To often people rush into marriage without really knowing each other and then discover along the way that they only have 80% of what they want instead of celebrating the 80% they focus on the 20% they don't have. Understanding each others differences and limitations will help you navigate a healthy marriage. Shame and guilt are very destructive. Learning how to forgive yourself and move forward by processing your past relationships can help you understand your present relationship. This can be very important in stopping the cycle of dysfunctional relationships.

What are the most common couples' issues? If you are thinking "communication, conflict, sex, money, child rearing" you are correct. However, most therapists will go after the symptom on each side of the couple fence thinking that the way to effective change is by getting each party to "work" on their respective "issue". Many times the parties don’t agree but comply. Imagine if you could align the unconscious brains of a couple and stop the "working on your issues" part that has become so popular in therapy settings? Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com to learn how! Or call 877-606-6161. DR. FLEMING'S NEW RELATIONSHIP/COUPLES INTENSIVES. www.kevinflemingphd.com/marriage-couples-retreats.php